Remember Iraq?

With Congress rejecting the $700 billion bailout package, the Dow falling 700 points and the U.S. economy on the edge of a cliff, no one is paying much attention to Iraq. Money talks, and incomprehensible and endless wars walk. From a purely financial perspective, that dismissive attitude makes no sense. The Iraq war has already cost almost $700 billion, and as Joseph Stiglitz and Linda J.

Need Grows for Fed Funds for Schools

They say the way to boil a frog is to heat the water slowly, so the frog doesn't realize it's getting cooked. By the time it gets really hot, it's too late to get out. I stood in long lines for hours last week to register our two teenaged tadpoles for high school. Describing it later to my mother, I realized that, like a frog, I had accommodated without noticing the changes occurring in schools.

"Why were you even needed at registration?" she asked. "I never had to register you in person."

When Education Is Unequal

This week, in a lawsuit brought against the State of Illinois and the State Board of Education, the Chicago Urban League and Quad County Urban League called on the courts to end the discriminatory and unconstitutional way public school education is funded in Illinois. This is not just an educational issue, but a civil rights issue, too, for thousands of African-American and Latino students whose social and economic future is being shortchanged by a flawed state policy.